Power Quotes

"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."

"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

"Character is power."

"The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media."

"The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference."

"I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions."

"I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there."

"The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways."

"The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq."

"You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself."

"I would like to be a positive force for young girls."

"I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive."

"Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum."

"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."

"Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals."

"There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing."

"I don't want to force my politics on my readers."

"In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war."

"Politics and power is a realm of relative influence."

"Politics is not about power."

"It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics."

"African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss."

"When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy."

"When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power."

"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are."

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."

"If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield."

"Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart."

"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."

"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."

"Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims."

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."

"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."

"Power to the peaceful!"

"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive."

"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."

"They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead."

"The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human."

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

"If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press."

"Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?"

"Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station."